Death of Priam
- Title
- Death of Priam
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Neck-amphora Old Catalogue 522 Vase B241
- Creator
- Leagros Group
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Leagros Group (Ancient Greek vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Death of Priam at the altar of Zeus Herkeios: In the centre is Neoptolemos to right, in tall visored helmet, embroidered chlamys, and greaves, stabbing Priam with spear. Priam has fallen across the altar and looks back beseechingly; he is partly bald, with white beard and long tresses, and long embroidered chiton; he raises right hand above head. On his body and the altar are purple streaks of blood. With left hand Neoptolemos thrusts back Hecuba, who is standing to left, with right hand placed on his helmet, and left raised to head; she has long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered. Behind Neoptolemos is a similar female figure (perhaps Andromache), with hands extended; behind the altar is a tree. (b) In the centre, Dionysos to right, bearded, with ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in right hand a vine-branch, in left a keras. At his further side a goat walks to right. On either side of him is a Maenad advancing to right, with long hair, fillet, and long embroidered chiton; the first one has a pardalis (leopard skin) tied round her neck, and right hand extended; she looks back at Dionysos; the second also wears a himation, and holds crotala (castanets) in left hand. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
- View
- Detail: Front
- Coverage
- Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 510-500 BCE
- Subject
- Myth between Iliad and Odyssey Sack of Troy
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- neck amphorae
- Date
- -0510/-0500
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01732
- Item Locator
- Box 4, Section 16
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 41.91 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted; incised
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1843,1103.22